trouble of coming; kind visit
Polite expression used to thank someone for making the effort to visit. Often used in phrases like ご足労いただき or ご足労をおかけして.
Thank you very much for taking the trouble to come today.
I'm sorry to have put you to the trouble of coming all this way.
Standard polite spelling using ご prefix.
Formal kanji spelling using 御; less common in everyday writing.
Combination of the polite prefix ご and 足労 (sokurō), where 足 means 'foot/leg' and 労 means 'labor/trouble', literally 'trouble of the feet'.